Cunearca scalaris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnadaraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anadara
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anadara
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anadara
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Cunearca scalaris on record, most of them in the Pliocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
10 occurrences- Pliocene80%
- Pleistocene20%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
5 formations
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group6
- Waccamaw Formation1
- Duplin Formation1
- Jackson Bluff Formation · Alum Bluff Group1
- Caloosahatchee Formation1
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The named rock units Cunearca scalaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cunearca scalaris and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cunearca scalaris and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
338 taxa- Ostrea5 sites
- Anomia simplex4 sites
- Nuculana4 sites
- Abra aequalis3 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa3 sites
- Clathrodrillia emmonsi3 sites
- Crassinella lunulata3 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans3 sites
- Glycymeris americana3 sites
- Lirophora (Panchione) ulocyma3 sites
- Macrocallista (Macrocallista) reposta3 sites
- Mulinia congesta3 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima3 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata3 sites
- Sportella3 sites
- Timoclea grus3 sites
- Urosalpinx3 sites
- Akleistostoma carolinensis2 sites
- Arca2 sites
- Astyris lunata2 sites
- Atrina2 sites
- Bornia triangula2 sites
- Cancellaria tabulata2 sites
- Carolinapecten eboreus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cunearca scalaris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
5 references- Notes on the upper Tertiary and Pleistocene mollusks of Peninsula Florida4
- Geology of the Western Everglades Area, Southern Florida2
- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda2
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida1
- Miocene pelecypods of the Choctawatchee Formation of Florida1
Each of the 10 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Cunearca scalaris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cunearca scalaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cunearca scalaris was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAnadara through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1844)